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ALTA Certification Academic Language Therapy

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1. A pattern of letters (found in a single syllable) which occurs frequently together. The pronunciation of at least one of the component parts is unexpected or the letters stand in an unexpected sequence ( ar - er - ir - or - us - qu - wh)






2. Response to Intervention - a multi-step or tiered approach to providing services and interventions at increasing intensity to students or an entire class.






3. Whole language. Founder of Whole language concept






4. A test in which the results can be used to determine a student's progress toward mastery of a content area. performance is compared to an expected level of mastery in a content area rather that to other student's scores. Such tests usually include qu






5. Proceeds from the whole to the part - suggests that processing of a text begins in the mind of the readers. Meaning is brought to print not derived from print.






6. Feeling through fingertips






7. Inferential learning of a concept cannot be take for granted! Never assume!






8. Test of Word Reading Efficiency. Screening test. measures an individual's ability to pronounce printed words accurately and fluently. Generates percentiles - standard scores - age equivalents - and grade equivalents.Decoding - Sight words






9. A score to which raw scores are converted by numerical transformation ( conversion of raw scores to percentile ranks or standard scores)






10. Students proceed trough predictable stages of learning to reading.

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11. Ability to think reason and solve problems. Skills are usually measured by an individual test of intelligence/IQ test. Requires being able to generalize from past experience and use that knowledge to respond to new situations.






12. A score that combines several scores according to a specified formula.






13. A word that is immediately recognized as a whole and does not require decoding to identify. A sight word may or may not be phonetically regular.






14. Wechsler Individual Achievement Test






15. An objective test that is given and scored in a uniform manner. Scores are often norm-referenced. For example SAT






16. Scientific terminology and often appear in science texts - Greek roots are often combining forms and compound to form words.






17. MSLE instruction requires that organization on material follow the logical order of the language. Sequence must begin with the easiest and progress to more difficult material. Each step must be based on prior knowledge.






18. Changes in curriculum - supplementary aides or equipment - and provision of specialized facilities that allow students to participate in educational environment to fullest extent possible.






19. The percentage is defined to include scores in a specified distribution that fall below the point at which a given score lies.






20. Proceeds from the part to the whole.Reading is driven by the text. Emphasizes the written or printed text. Flesch - Gough - LaBerge and Samuels.






21. Stress or emphasis on one syllable in a word or on one or more words in a phrase or sentence. The accented part is spoken louder - longer - and/or in a higher tone. The speaker's mouth opens wider while saying an accented syllable.






22. Is one that provides for translating test scores into a statement about the behavior to be expected of a person with that score or their relationship to a specified subject matter. Most tests and quizzes written by school teachers are criterion-refer






23. Four adjacent letters representing one sound (eigh)






24. Pre-reading - Oral Language Development

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25. Whole language - Drop Everythng and read - evaluation through miscues - founds of whole language






26. Was a pivotal event in English history. It largely removed the native ruling class - replacing it with a foreign - French-speaking monarchy - aristocracy - and clerical hierarchy. This - in turn - brought about a transformation of the English languag






27. Present the parts of the language and then teaches how the parts work together to make a whole. Part of a MSLE Program






28. Set of principles that dictate the sequence and function of words in a sentence in order to convey meaning - must include grammar - sentence types - and mechanics of language






29. Two adjacent letters repressing a single consonant sound






30. 1877 - first to use the term "word-blindness"






31. Instruction must include the six basic types of these and the division rules.






32. Supported only by "qualitative research" instead of quantitative research - Teaches "whole words" in word families - Students are not explicitly taught that there is a relationship between letters and sounds for most sounds






33. Wide Range Achievement Test






34. A letter or a group of letters attached to the beginning or ending of a base word or root that creates a derivative with a meaning or grammatical form that is different that the base word or root.






35. A test in which a student's performance is compared to that of a norm group. Often used to measure and compare students - schools - districts and states.






36. 1904 - reported 2 cases of "congenital word blindness" - called for schools to establish procedures for screening as well as appropriate teaching of those that were identified with congenital word-blindness






37. Individual Educational Plan






38. A syllable ending with a long vowel sound. (labor - freedom)






39. State Law. Requires testing - Requires that students enrolled in public schools be tested for dyslexia. - Requires treatment (teaching)






40. Federal Law. Nondiscrimination on the basis of handicap in programs receiving federal $$ - Civil Rights Law - to protect people with disabilities by allowing full participation in the workplace.






41. Anglo-Saxon - Latin - Greek






42. Whole body learning






43. Developmental Auditory Impercepion - Dysphasia - Specific Developmental Dyslexia - Developmental Dysgraphia - Developmental Spelling Disability






44. Participate in classroom discussions - make speeches/presentations - use tape records during lectures - read text out loud - create musical jingles - create mnemonics to aid memorization - discuss ideas verbally






45. A term coined by Stanovich to describe a phenomenon observed in findings of cumulative advantage for children who read well and have good vocabulary and cumulative disadvantage for those who have inadequate vocabularies and read less and thus have lo






46. Study of sounds and how the work within their environment






47. Closed syllable - open syllable - vowel- consonant-e - r controlled syllable - vowel team - final stable syllable






48. 1925 - Coined the term "strephosymbolia" which means twisted symbols; Pathologist - neurologist and psychitrist in the US - studied with Dr. Alzheimer in Germany - work influenced by James Hinshelwood






49. A way of describing - in standard deviation units - a raw score's distance from its distribution means.






50. Involve at least two people. It includes the ability to maintain eye contact - understand body language of others - take turns in a conversation - stick to the subject - and use oral language appropriate for the situation.